SO what the hell is a DriftRoot? It's like driftwood, only it's a root.

It now resides above my computer and I am deeply attached to it. Oh right, how'd it get to be my user name...way back, when the Internet was first popping up in homes across America, I was intensely averse to something like Lauren4433999 or ILikeHorses, and decided DriftRoot was weird and cute and meaningful and memorable. It's all mine, it's taken a long time for anyone else out there in Internet land to try and swipe it, it was banned from IRC (not my fault...kinda) and it's not going away.
DriftRoot also gives rise to completely random, but kindly, nicknames like Drift, Drifty and DaftRoot, which I always appreciate.